Solidarity Actions

workers and PBX workers - have been attempting to win a new union contract from eight* luxury

Los Angeles hotels that have formed the Hotel Employers Council. These workers have been

working without a contract since April 2004.

The Employers Council has used intimidation, the fear of an employer lockout, threats to hire

replacement workers, and the termination of the worker's union contract to attempt to force the

workers to back down from their demands for: Humane Workloads, Paid Sick Days, Employer-

Paid Health Insurance, Livable Wagesand a Contract Expiration aligned with other major

cities.

In order to support Los Angeles hotel workers and to help them protect their rights and their voice

on the job, Affiliated Property Craftspersons, IATSE Local 44, hereby pledges to stop doing business

with the following hotels:

Century Plaza

Wilshire Grand

Bonaventure

Sheraton Universal

Regent Beverly Wilshire

Hyatt West Hollywood

Hyatt Regency

Millennium Biltmore

* St Regis was dropped from the list due to conversion to condominiums.

IATSE Local 44 will not meet, eat or sleep at any of these hotels until the Unite Here Local 11 workers at the Employers Council hotels have achieved a fair and just contract. Until that contract has been signed, we will encourage our members and our allied unions and organizations to join us in this boycott. We call on our members to honor this boycott and hold their wedding receptions, high school reunions, and all functions at union hotels not on the boycott list.

The highly publicized film "Cinderella Man" opens June 3. It is a classic American story in every way, with one exception: where it was made. It was filmed in Toronto instead of the United States,using labor heavily subsidized by the Canadian government. How ironic that this story of a man literally fighting to provide for his family at the height of the Depression should be filmed in a foreign country, costing America hundreds of middle-class jobs and contributing to the dangerous trade imbalance which now deeply concerns our economic experts.